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Design Innovative Robots with LEGO SPIKE Prime

By : Aaron Maurer
5 (1)
Book Image

Design Innovative Robots with LEGO SPIKE Prime

5 (1)
By: Aaron Maurer

Overview of this book

The new LEGO SPIKE Prime is one of the latest additions to the LEGO robotics line of products. This book will help you to enjoy building robots and understand how exciting robotics can be in terms of design, coding, and the expression of ideas. The book begins by taking you through a new realm of playful learning experiences designed for inventors and creators of any age. In each chapter, you'll find out how to build a creative robot, learn to bring the robot to life through code, and finally work with exercises to test what you've learned and remix the robot to suit your own unique style. Throughout the chapters, you'll build exciting new smart robots such as a handheld game, a robotic arm with a joystick, a guitar, a flying bird, a sumobot, a dragster, and a Simon Says game. By the end of this LEGO book, you'll have gained the knowledge and skills you need to build any robot that you can imagine.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Making it your own

Here is the best part of every chapter and build. What will you do to remix the build and the code to make it unique to your own creative power? While Simon Says is a standard game, there are a lot of ways to enhance your build.

Here are a couple of ideas to consider applying to this game:

  • What new graphics could you display besides the solid bars? Arrows? Images?
  • What new sound effects could you add? What are your favorite jingles from movies, cartoons, or video games that you could add?
  • Could you change this from a Simon Says game to a Bop It game? Instead of tilting the Intelligent Hub, could you have the player activate one of the gesture controls such as shaken, tapped, or falling?
  • What if you used a touch sensor or even rotated a motor to add new levels of difficulty to the game?